Job Title: Scientist

Location: Worcester, MA

Duration: +6 months with possible extension

Job Description

Isolation & characterization of human blood cells and in vitro cell assays-

Contractor will request donor samples, isolate cells from human or monkey peripheral blood, set up cultures with isolated cells, perform cell stimulation or differentiation by test compounds, harvest cells and supernatants, prepare these samples for further analysis; run ELISA tests to study effector function of compounds; analyze and present the data generated by these experiments.

What are the top 3-5 skills, experience, or education required for this position?

• BS or MS & 3-5 years of biochemistry lab experience

• Primary cell isolation and culture

• ELISA

• In vitro cell assays

• Flow cytometry

What is a nice to have (but not required) skill, experience, education, or certification?

• Basic lab techniques: sterile technique, pipetting samples, generating titrations/dilutions, dealing with cells, making buffers

• Enthusiastic, organized

• Assay development experience

• qPCR experience

In what type of environment would this individual be working (i.e.: Team; Individual; type of office, etc.) ?

• 100 % Lab, bench work, team and individual work

Daily Work Schedule Expectations

• M-F regular business hours

EEO:

“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”